The chairperson of IEEE 802.11g will give a final report to the IEEE 802.11 Working Group. There will be no IEEE 802.11g meetings, as all work on IEEE 802.11g completed.
The IEEE 802 Executive Committee approved the forwarding of IEEE 802.11g Draft 8.2 to the IEEE Standard Board for ratification. On June 11, 2003, RevCom unanimously approved IEEE 802.11g, and on June 12, 2003 the IEEE Standards Board approved 802.11g. Publication of IEEE 802.11g will occur in July 2003. Upon publication, IEEE 802.11g may be obtained at standards.ieee.org.
At the May 2003 session, the results on the Sponsor Recirculation Ballot of Draft 8.2 were reviewed. All comments were rejected and the draft was not changed. The minutes from the May 2003 session are available in document 03/449. Task Group G voted unanimously to request ratification of Draft 8.2 as the final version of 802.11g. The IEEE 802.11 Working Group also unanimously approved a motion to request final approval for Draft 8.2. The 802.11g chair's closing report from the May 2003 session is available in document 03/443.
During the session, Task Group G successfully processed the Sponsor Ballot comments on Draft 7.1. The draft was updated to version 8.1, and the task group requested a Sponsor Recirculation ballot on the updated draft. Comment resolution from the draft can be found in document 03/281. The approved agenda for the meeting is available in document 03/280. Draft 8.1 is available in the Members Only Area of the IEEE 802.11 web site.
The agenda for the March 2003 session is available in document 03/0145. The minutes from the session are available in document 03/268.
During the March 2003 session, Task Group G resolved comments from the first IEEE 802.11g Sponsor Balloting. The Sponsor Ballot was on Draft 6.2. There were eleven disapprove votes on the draft. All comment resolutions and detailed voting results on the Sponsor Ballot are contained in document 03/219. During the session, the draft was update to Draft 7.0. The new draft contains technical and editorial changes with respect to Draft 6.2.
Motions were approved during by the IEEE 802.11g Working Group to forward the updated draft to Sponsor Recirculation ballot. In addition, an ad-hoc meeting was announced for April 14-16, 2003 in Austin, Texas, USA. During the April 2003 Ad-Hoc session, comments will be resolved form the Sponsor Recirculation ballot.
Working Group Letter Ballot 54 passed. The IEEE issued a press release related to IEEE 802.11g gaining working group approval.
The IEEE 802 Executive Committee passed a motion to grant conditional approval to forward Draft 6.1 to Sponsor Ballot. The results of Letter Ballot 54 met all conditions to forward Draft 6.1 to Sponsor Ballot.
The draft was updated to version 6.2 based on editorial requests made by the IEEE SA. There are no technical differences between Draft 6.1 and Draft 6.2 Draft 6.2 was forwarded to Sponsor Ballot. The Sponsor Ballot is a 30 day ballot which will close prior to the March 2003 session of 802.11g.
Based on the significant progress that has been made during January and February of 2003, the likelihood of final approval for 802.11g in June 2003 has increased significantly. The official 802.11g schedule estimate is available in document 02/714.
The agenda for the January 2003 session is available in document 02/789. The minutes from the session are available in document 03/081.
Significant progress was made during the session. Resolutions to comments from Letter Ballot 50 on Draft 5.0 were review and resolutions were adopted with respect to those comments. The Draft was updated to version 6.1.
Several motions were passed with respect to the draft. First a request to forward Draft 6.1 to Working Group recirculation ballot was approved. A motion was also approved to request conditional approval to forward Draft 6.1 to Sponsor Ballot. An additional motion was passed authorizing the forwarding of Draft 6.1 to Sponsor Ballot contingent upon meeting all conditions for forwarding.
At the session in Kauai the membership reviewed the results of the reciculation ballot on draft 4.0. The draft was updated to version 5.0. Due to poor return rate on the previous two ballots, Task Group G was forced to issue a new Letter Ballot, as the previous two ballots did not meet the 75% return rate requirement.
The minutes and agenda for the November session are available documents 02/702 and 02/703, respectively.
The Chair Status update from the beginning of the meeting is in document 02/704. The final Task Group G report to the Working Group at the close of the meeting is available in document 02/782.
A new document has been formed that tracks the history of IEEE 802.11 balloting on the drafts of 802.11g. The document number is 02/714.
Following the November 2002 session, Working Group Letter Ballot 50 was issued on Draft 5.0 of IEEE 802.11g. Due to the delay experience by not being able to forward Draft 4.0 to Sponsor Ballot, the estimated IEEE 802.11g schedule has been updated as follows:
Estimated IEEE 802.11g Schedule
January 2002 - Working Group Letter Ballot #1
March 2002 - Resolve Comments from Letter Ballot
May 2002 - Resolve Comments from Letter Ballot
July 2002 - Resolve Comments from Letter Ballot and Issue Letter Ballot #2
September 2002 - Resolve Comments from Letter Ballot and Issue Working Group Recirculation Ballot #1
November 2002 - Resolve Comments from Recirculation Ballot and Issue Working Group Letter Ballot
January 2003 Forward Draft 5.0 to Sponsor Ballot
March 2003 - Resolve Comments from Sponsor Ballot and Recirculate to Sponsor Ballot Pool
May 2003 Submission to RevCom
June/July 2003 - Estimated Final Approval of IEEE 802.11g
Results from Letter Ballot #41 were reviewed at the session. Letter Ballot #41 passed with an approve percentage of 80.5%. The detailed voting results of Letter Ballot #41 are available in document 02/522.
During the September 2002 Session, Task Group G resolved comments from Letter Ballot #41. Resolutions were adopted for all technical comments, and details of the adopted resolutions are available in document 02/535.
The 802.11g Draft was updated to version 3.2 during the session. The editor of 802.11g will produced Draft 4.0 based on the adopted resolutions within two weeks of the end of the September 2002 Session.
Upon completion of Draft 4.0 a Working Group Letter Ballot will be issued to gain approval of the membership to issue a Recirculation Ballot on Draft 4.0. Pending this approval a 15-day Letter Ballot will be issued on Draft 4.0. This ballot will close before the November 2002 Session of Task Group G, which will allow Task Group G to proceed with further comment resolution or to Sponsor Ballot during the November 2002 Session.
The agenda for the September 2002 Session is available in document 02/536.
During the session the committee continued comment resolution on Letter Ballot #33. Resolutions were adopted on all comments. The draft of IEEE 802.11g was updated to Draft 3.0 based on the adopted resolutions. A new working group letter ballot (LB #41) was issued after the July 2002 on the updated Draft.
The agenda for the July 2002 session is available in document 02/398. The minutes for the July 2002 session are available in document 02/448.
Task Group G held conference calls in June 2002 to address issues related to:
During the March 2002 session Task Group G resolved comments on the first Working Group Letter Ballot which was issued in January 2002. The task group was unable complete comment resolution, thus no new ballot was issued. During the May 2002 session, the goal was to resolve all comments from the first Working Group Letter Ballot and issue a new ballot. IEEE 802.11g was unable to resolve all technical issues, thus no letter ballot was issued from the May 2002 Session.
The TGg Chair's closing report to the IEEE 802.11 Working Group on May 17, 2002 can be found in document 02/382. During the May session Task Group G made progress on resolving the known technical issues. The resolution of these comments to date are contained in document 02/209. The comments resolved to date have also been incorporated into Draft 2.8 of IEEE 802.11g which is available in the Members Only Area. Task Group G has 173 (mostly technical) comments to resolve before the second letter ballot on the IEEE 802.11g draft can be issued. The remaining 173 comments contain technical issues related to but not limited to:
Due to ongoing comment resolutions, the estimated schedule for IEEE 802.11g has been updated following the May 2002 to session as follows:
Estimated IEEE 802.11g Schedule
January 2002 - Working Group Letter Ballot #1
March 2002 - Resolve Comments from Letter Ballot
May 2002 - Resolve Comments from Letter Ballot
July 2002 - Resolve Comments from Letter Ballot and Issue Letter Ballot #2
September 2002 - Resolve Comments from Letter Ballot and Issue Working Group Recirculation Ballot #1
November 2002 - Resolve Comments from Recirculation Ballot and Issue Working Group Recirculation Ballot #2
January 2003 - Resolve Comments from Recirculation Ballot and Issue Sponsor Ballot #1
February 2003 - Resolve Comments from Sponsor Ballot and Recirculate to Sponsor Ballot Pool
March 2003 - Submission to RevCom
May 2003 - Estimated Final Approval of IEEE 802.11g
At the January 2002 Session the IEEE 802.11 Working Group issued Letter Ballot #33 on Draft 2.1 of the IEEE 802.11g draft. The ballot closes on March 11, 2002. During the March 2002 session, the 802.11g Task Group will resolve comments from Letter Ballot #33. The tentative agenda for the March 2002 session is available in document 02/139.
Estimated IEEE 802.11g Schedule
March 2002 - Working Group Letter Ballot #2
May 2002 - Working Group Recirculation Ballot #1
July 2002 - Working Group Recirculation Ballot #2
September 2002 - Sponsor Ballot #1
November 2002 - Sponsor Ballot #2
December 2002 - Submission to RevCom
January 2003 - Estimated Final Approval of IEEE 802.11g
Draft 1.1 of IEEE 802.11g is currently available in the Members Only Area. Draft 1.1 contains editorial changes to Draft 1.0.
The main objective for the January 2002 session is to enable for the first Working Group Letter Ballot on the IEEE 802.11g standard. The tentative agenda for the session is available in document 02/002. During the January 2002 session any open issues in Draft 1.1 will be addressed.
Task Group G will hold no conference calls leading up to the January 2002 session.
The estimated schedule below assumes two rounds of Working Group Letter Ballot, two rounds of Working Group Recirculation Ballot and two rounds of Sponsor Balloting. The schedule will be shorted or lengthened by variation in the actual number or balloting rounds required.
Estimated IEEE 802.11g Schedule
January 2002 - Working Group Letter Ballot #1
March 2002 - Working Group Letter Ballot #2
May 2002 - Working Group Recirculation Ballot #1
July 2002 - Working Group Recirculation Ballot #2
September 2002 - Sponsor Ballot #1
November 2002 - Sponsor Ballot #2
December 2002 - Submission to RevCom
January 2003 - Estimated Final Approval of IEEE 802.11g
During the November 2001 session, the IEEE 802.11 Task Group G reached an important milestone by approving its first draft. When complete, it will extend the highly successful family of IEEE 802.11 standards, with data rates up to 54 Mbps in the 2.4 GHz band. This draft is based on CCK, OFDM, and PBCC technologies. The Working Group will meet in January 2002 to further refine the TGg draft in preparation for publication by the second half of 2002.
The Task Group completed all of the objectives that were targeted for completion during the November 2001 session. The approved agenda for the session is contained in document 01/545r1.
The Task Group successfully completed it Technical Selection Procedure as specified in 00/209. The procedure was completed by approving the contents of document 01/644r0 as first draft of 802.11g. The first draft is number version 1.0 and is contained in the Members Only Area of the IEEE 802.11 web site.
The Task Group elected Carl Andren as the technical editor of the IEEE 802.11g standard.
Draft 1.1 of 802.11g will be completed by December 21, 2001 and will be available in the Members Only Area. Draft 1.1 will contain editorial changes to Draft 1.0.
In a ddition, the Task Group heard numerous general submissions and held a coordination session with the Regulatory Committee. Details of the entire session are available in the minutes which are in document 01/576. The Chair's status update as presented at the beginning of the session is available in 01/607.
Session cancelled due to events of September 11, 2001.
The objectives for the July 2001 session of Task Group G were to:
The agenda for the session is contained in document 01/392. The minutes for the July 2001 session are contained in document 01/346. During the session fair debate was conducted on the Selection Procedure. Four papers were submitted on how to procedure with selection. Ultimately the Hayes/Boer/Carney/Zyren motion passed on Thursday of the session. This motion clarified selection procedure step 19. The full wording of the motion may be obtained on slide 5 of document 01/500r1.
In addition to clarification of the selection procedure to be followed, a compromise position was offered by Heegard, et al. The submission is entitled Attaining 75 Percent is contained in document 01/446.
No voting on proposals took place during the session, so the selection procedure was not completed. Due to the amount of time spent determining how to proceed and hearing other documents, the session also ran out of time before the issue of selecting an editor was taken up or the issue of discussing regulatory issues was taken up.
The agenda for the May 2001 Session is available at 01/216. The minutes for the session are available in document 01/318. The update from the chair presented at the beginning of the session is available in document 01/329. The mid-session report the the 802.11 Working Group is available in document 01/330. The final report from the Task Group G chairperson to the 802.11 Working Group is available in document 01/331.
The objectives of the May 2001 session were to discuss regulatory issues, complete the the technical Selection Procedure (doc. 00/209r3) adopted by the Task Group, and to select an editor. Of these objectives only the first was fully completed. Regulatory issues were discussed, but no action was taken by the Task Group on regulatory issues.
Execution of the technical selection procedure continued. One vote was take under step 19 of the procedure. The vote was 58% for the CCK-OFDM proposal and 42% for the PBCC. This vote eliminated the PBCC proposal from further consideration under the Selection Procedure.
No further votes were taken under the technical Selection Procedure during the session. The Task Group is still in Step 19 of the technical selection procedure with the following candidate remaining:
| Proposal | Presenter(s) | Affiliation | Proposal Document Number |
| OFDM | M. Webster, et al. | Intersil Corporation | 00/388-397, 01/155 |
A 75% support level, as required on all technical motions in IEEE 802, was not reached during the session, thus an official draft first draft of the new standard has not yet been enabled by Task Group G.
The Task Group adjourned before noon on Thursday of the session and did not use the time allocated to it by the 802.11 Working Group on Thursday afternoon and evening. Task Group work will continue at the July 2001 Session.
The agenda for the March 2001 Session is contained in document 01/113. The minutes of the session are available in document 01/214. Status information from the chair as of the start of the meeting is available in document 01/213. Numerous documents were presented at the session related to each of the three remaining proposals and questions and issues related to the proposals.
The task group continued its 20 step Selection Procedure at the March 2001 Session. The Task Group completed all steps up to step 19 and partially completed step 19. As part of step 19, one proposal was eliminated, namely the MBCK proposal. The only two remaining proposals are the PBCC proposals are as follows:
| Proposal | Presenter(s) | Affiliation | Proposal Document Number |
| OFDM | M. Webster, et al. | Intersil Corporation | 00/388-397, 01/155 |
| PBCC | C. Heegard, et al. | Texas Instruments, Inc. | 00/384-385, 01/140-2 |
Voting results are available in document 01/180.
In addition, the group meet with Julius Knapp of the Office f Engineering Technology at the United States Federal Communications Commission. Details of the meeting with Julius are available in the minutes as well as document 01/212 which was presented as a tutorial to the whole of IEEE 802.
Minutes for the November 2001 Session are contained in document 01/108r1. The task group executed steps 14 through 17 of the proposal Selection Procedure. The three remaining proposals are as follows:
| Proposal | Presenter(s) | Affiliation | Proposal Document Number |
| OFDM | M. Webster, J. Zyren, S. Halford | Intersil Corporation | 00/388-397 |
| MBCK | Tim O'Farrell | Supergold Communications, Ltd. | 00/366r1 |
| PBCC | C. Heegard, et.al. | Texas Instruments, Inc. | 00/384-385 |
Technical details of the three remaining proposals were heard. Members of the task group had the opportunity to ask questions of the presenters. In addition, the Comparison Criteria Matrix (00/422) was updated. In addition the task group received input from the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The input is capture in documents 01/035, 01/053 and 01/108.
Minutes for the November 2000 Session are contained in doc. 00/402. The task group executed steps 6 through 13 of the proposal Selection Procedure (doc. 00/209r3). The task group heard all four proposals, allowed a period for open questioning of the presenters, allowed final statements, and conduct the first elimination vote. As a results of the first elimination vote, only three proposals will continue to be considered by the task group. The proposals that remain are from Webster, et al. (Intersil), O'Farrell, et al. (Supergold) and Heegard, et al. (Texas Instruments). The results of the elimination vote are shown in document 00/435. The task group will continue execution of the Selection Procedure at the January 2001 meeting in Monterrey, California, USA
The following presenters announced their intention to present proposals to TGg by the Monday, October 30, 2000 deadline.
| Presenter(s) | Affiliation | Proposal Document Number |
| T.K. Tan, Niels Van Erven | 3COM | 00/418 |
| M. Webster, J. Zyren, S. Halford | Intersil Corporation | 00/388-397 |
| Tim O'Farrell | Supergold Communications, Ltd. | 00/366r1 |
| C. Heegard, et.al. | Texas Instruments, Inc. | 00/384-385 |
The Non-AWGN Distortions section of the Comparison Criteria requires determination of each proposal's performance in multipath and with phase noise. To facilitate uniform results for each item in the Comparison Criteria, the following MATLAB files have been generated from documents referenced in the Comparison Criteria.
| Multipath Distortion Model: | ExpChanTaps.m |
| Phase Noise Model: | PhaseNoise.zip |
The HRb SG began work at the September session anticipating official approval of the PAR prior to the end of the session and thus becoming Task Group G (TGg). Official approval was obtain for the PAR (doc. 00/114r2) on Wednesday, September 20, 2000. On Thursday, September 21, 2000, TGg officially meet for the first time. Minutes for the September 18-20, 2000 Session of the HRb SG are available in document 00/287. Minutes for the September 21-22, 2000 Session of TGg are available in document 00/340.
During the September 2000 Sessions, document 00/209r3 was adopted as the official Proposal Selection Procedure for TGg. Documents 00/210r4 and 00/211r9 where adopted as the official Function Requirements and Comparison Criteria, respectively.
A press release announcing final approval of the PAR was also reaffirmed in document 00/217r3.
The group unanimously moved to issue the Final Call for Proposals. All individuals that would like to submit a proposal to TGg must notify the TGg chairperson, Matthew B. Shoemake, by Monday, October 30, 2000 at 11:59PM EST of their intent to present at the November 2000 Plenary in Tampa, Florida, USA. Document numbers for submissions may be obtained from the Harry Worstell, Vice Chairperson of the 802.11 WG. Submissions should follow standard 802.11 naming and formatting conventions. All individuals that submit notice of intent to present a proposal to TGg must submit their proposals by Monday, November 6, 2000, at 11:59PM EST. These hard deadlines have been set with due notice to allow for execution of the Selection Procedure to continue on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. The Selection Procedure is based on elimination and merging of proposals, thus it is the intent of the group to disallow any proposals that are not presented to TGg by the above deadlines.
Per motions passed by the HRb SG and the 802.11 WG at the July 2000 Plenary meeting, we will be having a series of conference calls on:
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The conference calls will last no longer than 1.5 hours. The conference calls will all be held at 8:00AM Pacific Time (USA).
The purpose of the conference calls will be to work on the following draft documents:
Minutes for the four meetings will be accumulated in document number 00/251 and its revisions.
The HRb SG began work on a Proposal Selection Procedure (00/209), Functional Requirements (00/210) and Comparison Criteria (00/211). A series of four conference calls to continue work on the draft documents is authorized by the SG and the WG.
The SG heard five technical submissions (docs. 00/188, 00/202, 00/203, 00/206, 00/230).
In anticipation of approval of the PAR, a press release (00/217) is drafted to announce it.
A Call for Intent to Propose (00/198) is drafted. The call will be issued when the IEEE 802.11 Executive Committee approves the PAR.
No objections to the PAR or 5 Criteria are raised by any individual or Working Group during the session. The PAR and 5 Criteria were presented to the IEEE 802.11 Executive Committee for approval. The Executive Committee requested a Letter Ballot to reaffirm the PAR and 5 Criteria. Letter Ballot #23 has been issued in compliance with the mandate. Approval of the PAR by the IEEE Standards Board is expected to occur concurrently with the September 2000 IEEE 802.11 Interim Meeting.
Minutes from the session are in document 00/246.
During the week of May 8th 2000, there were nine technical papers (docs. 00/062, 00/069, 00/072, 00/073, 00/074, 00/086, 00/091, 00/092, 00/093) and proposals presented. The primary focus of the presentations was on the feasibility of extending the IEEE 802.11b standard to rates in excess of 20Mbps. During the week, the study group drafted a PAR (00/114) and 5 Criteria (00/115) for extension of the IEEE 802.11b standard. The study group moved unanimously to refer the PAR and 5 Criteria to the IEEE 802.11 Working Group. The IEEE 802.11 Working Group voted unanimously for referral of the PAR and 5 Criteria to the IEEE 802 Executive Committee for consideration at the July 2000 Meeting.
The study group has been empowered to continue work at the July 10 14, 2000 meeting in La Jolla, CA, in anticipation of attaining approval of the PAR. The study group will begin work on defining functional requirements and performance requirements for the new extension.
The study group expects to issue a Call for Proposals in July 2000, assuming that the PAR is approved.
Minutes from the session are in document 00/136.
High Rate 802.11b Study Group is formed. The purpose of the Higher Rate IEEE 802.11b Study Group is to investigate technical extensions that are interoperable with the IEEE 802.11b-1999 standard and that can lead to higher than 20Mbps data rates and other performance improvements
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